Creating energized intentions

Creating energized intentions uses easy, flowing energy.

How you defineintentions makes all the difference to your success.  

Do you plan to achieve what your heart desires?   Or do you pursue what you think you can have?  Maybe you fight situations you don’t like?

Do I cherish a vision of being healthy and fit and take healthy actions, or take multiple blood pressure readings?

I am discouraged at the way women get treated in certain sectors.  I could help to promote women, but I’m not sure how, so instead I will create a blog to criticize those organizations who do not promote women as they should.  

This is more than just semantics.  One thought is exciting and the other is frustrating. 

Say I would like to sing in a festival chorus, but I have lost my range so I don’t audition.  I don’t sing at all and feel sad every time I hear choral music.  I end up with less of what I love in my life!

The way you think about plans can take your breath away or take your energy away.  It’s an important distinction.  It dramatically affects what you can accomplish.  It radically affects how much you enjoy what you do every day.

When setting intentions, start with what truly inspires you, even if you fear you might fail.  You are farther ahead failing at something you truly want than failing at something you didn’t really care about.

There is a natural tendency to avoid what you truly, truly want.  You might even go completely unconscious about those dreams for many reasons.  

People will tell you, without being asked, that you cannot have what you really want.  You may well tell yourself you cannot have it and quickly back down to an intention that seems more reasonable, maybe even something super easy.

When you desire something new, it is unknown whether you can accomplish it or even how.  It’s instantly frightening.  

I’d like to meet someone and share a loving relationship, but, you know, I’d be ok with just having someone to go out to dinner with. 

Folk singing a capella would be fun but finding others to sing with might be humiliating and my voice is old.  I know!  First, I’ll take singing lessons for at least a year.  

What do you really, really want?  Head directly toward that!  Going a different direction wastes a lot of energy.  You find the guy who’s just a dinner date.  He treats you like just a dinner date and you resent it.  The critical blog against misogyny makes you negative and people dismiss you.  The singing teacher quickly depletes your fun money and you still aren’t really singing. The blood pressure readings make you feel frail. 

Don’t give yourself a vote of no confidence right from the start.  (For God’s sake, please don’t do this to your children.)

What would you do, be or have it there were no limits and you were certain to succeed?  I challenge you now to stop and write down five of these things.  Write them!  Seriously, do it now!

Then stop.  Don’t allow yourself to change the Ferrari to a Little Tikes.  A coaching certification is not the same as the divinity degree.  Simply acknowledge what you truly want. It’s only an exercise. 

How do those desires make you feel?  What you love has wonderful energy.  Pursuing it is satisfying even if you fail.  You will love the people you meet.  The fear dissipates once you take action.    

It might not turn out as you hoped.  

It could be better.